---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING ABSENTEE BALLOTS; TO AMEND ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTING BY ABSENTEE BALLOT; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SPOILED BALLOTS."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING ABSENTEE BALLOTS; TO AMEND ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTING BY ABSENTEE BALLOT; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SPOILED BALLOTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1715"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1715 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Lowery"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-11T21:10:45+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-15T18:16:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6dabde6c-2f80-4237-9617-d64483c42ec4"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "04e187dc05d6a658681b66cfa489d397ec13ae2ae39501cb53435df07f1c0737"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---

# Arkansas HB 1715 (2021) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING ABSENTEE BALLOTS; TO AMEND ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTING BY ABSENTEE BALLOT; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SPOILED BALLOTS.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1715-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1715-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1715** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1715.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **74–22** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **27–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Lowery — primary (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-03-11T21:10:45+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-11T23:35:26+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15T13:40:25+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-15T13:40:28+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15T16:50:15+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-29T14:00:03+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-29T14:00:07+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-29T18:06:13+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-31T18:04:14+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-01T19:03:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01T21:10:16+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-01T21:10:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-12T18:19:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-13T19:56:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-13T19:56:45+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-13T21:14:48+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-13T21:14:51+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-14T13:41:49+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-15T18:16:21+00:00** Notification that HB1715 is now Act 736 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6dabde6c-2f80-4237-9617-d64483c42ec4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).